04/15/10

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. -Kenji Miyazawa

04/14/10

Poetry is life distilled. -Gwendolyn Brooks

04/13/10

The prerequisite of writing is having something to say. -Langston Hughes

04/12/10

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. -Dennis Gabor

04/08/10

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. -Gary Snyder

04/07/10

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. -Charles Simic

04/06/10

Poetry is the voice of the soul. -Carolyn Forché

04/05/10

Poetry exists to give the socially awkward a way to finally be applauded by their peers. -Geoff Trenchard

04/02/10

To begin, begin. -William Wordsworth

04/01/10

I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way. —Jimmy Santiago Baca